Movies: Parenthood

Mom and Me takes a look at tough guys and the even tougher women who raise them. Set in Oklahoma City, apparently voted the manliest city in the United States, this creative documentary from Irish director Ken Wardrop ("His & Hers") chronicles th...

Her and Him live together and love each other. Him wants to have kids and Her is not so sure. Everything changes when Him believes Her is pregnant. Him realizes that maybe having kids with Her, is no quite what he really wants....

Children’s birthday parties are most parents' worst nightmare. While the kids play frantically and raise their blood sugar levels, the adults are condemned to a succession of dull conversations about the weather with people they barely know. Not on t...

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother....

In Unborn we follow the internal monologue of a hybrid pigeon-persona who questions her inevitable cursed fate of parenthood. As a pigeon, she is supposed to build a nest to lay her eggs, but she fundamentally doubts her part in the cycle of life. Se...

A dedicated mother fights against the stubborn administrative system to get her son the services he needs....

Documentary following the life of a young woman living with motor neurone disease (MND) as she takes on motherhood and plans her marriage to the man of her dreams....

A single mother struggles with the futility of her relationship with her special needs son as her patience grows thin....

A mother goes searching for memories of her son after his death and struggles with the truth she finds out....

A film about Princesse, a 9-year-old Cameroonian, and her father, who leaves Africa to make their dreams come true. The two keep in touch through numerous phone calls. Princesse goes to school while her father is trying to make it in Paris cleaning ...

A year after Thadd and Shannon gave birth to their son, A Conversation Between Parents highlights a climactic conversation in their lives -- as both young parents grasp at the last threads of their ideal family. On an afternoon off of work, the coupl...

The director's grandfather is a blind fortune teller and his father a real-estate owner. They have grievances against each other for dismantling the old house. Grandfather thinks it's time for him to leave and asks Father to quit his job. At the same...

The film is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child – the Ondine’s Curse (also known as CCHS, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome). People affected with...

After a night of boozing, Ceren told her husband, Ali, that she has stopped taking the pill and wants a child, but Ali has a hidden secret from his past. After learning the truth, Ceren has to face some difficult personal, legal and moral decisions....

A father grows suspicious that there's an intruder in his house, only to discover something much darker....

A young father-to-be struggles to overcome his grief and fear of becoming a father and specifically his father....

At the crossroads of documentary and narrative fiction, Another tomorrow offers a window into the daily life of a single mother and her child through a typical day....

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood....

A ten minute wait in a medical clinic forces a young mother and her daughter to collude together at a pivotal point in time that will shape both their lives together....